One little Texas Rangers fan went home with a souvenir from the Ballpark in Arlington on Wednesday night, no thanks to the people sitting next to him.

The boy could have had a ball that Rangers first baseman Mitch Moreland tossed into the stands in the top of the eighth inning of Texas’ game with the New York Yankees. Instead, a man came away with it, then handed it to his female companion.

Later, as the boy was crying, the man snapped a photo of the woman as she posed with the ball.

Worse for the couple, the whole episode was captured by the Yankees' YES Network television crew, and play-by-play announcer Michael Kay torched them on the air for the better part of an inning. “Greedy” and “oblivious” were two of the words Kay used to describe them.

So how did the boy wind up with his own keepsake? According to Kay, someone in the Rangers' dugout heard about the incident and gave another ball to a stadium worker, who then tossed it to the youngster and, presumably, his parents.